I signed up for several organized swaps at Leadership – for one of them I made these Designer Paper Purses.  This is for a Candy Wrapper swap – inside you could put candy – I actually put sunflower seeds in mine since I was trying to stick with a bird theme.  I used two different paper packs from the new Stampin’ Up! Occasions Mini Catalog.  Some are made with papers from Springtime Vintage collection and the others are made from the Botanical Gazette collection.

They all have Early Espresso for the top of the purse, Clear Rhinestone Brads for the latch, a two-step Bird punched out for the front, the Seam Binding handles and an Oval Punched tag tied with Linen Thread.

 

I stamped on the Botanical Gazette papers with the Nature Walk stamp set.  The papers and birds are speckled with a Color Spritzer and either Early Espresso Stampin’ Write Marker or a Crumb Cake Stampin’ Write marker.

The stitching is the White Gel Pen.

I love making these purses.  I also tried making them in smaller sizes but decided to keep them big so they would fit the Sunflower seeds inside.

I hope you like them.

We are enjoying the trip to Nashville.  Once I got out of my neighborhood Wed. morning – straight up a hill of ice to get out – the roads were clear, mostly dry and it was smooth driving all the way up and over the mountains.  It took one hour for me to get out of the neighborhood (part of that was getting up the nerve to try to tackle the hill of ice) and then four hours or so to get to Nashville.

We are having fun packed, busy days and I’ll have lots to share when I get back!